Byron, Nebraska
12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1898 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Chester precinct. It lies in ZIP code area 68325. The Survey maps it on the Byron quadrangle. 83 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,670 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresByron grew from 83 to 83 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 83 | |
| 2020 | 83 | 0 (0%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 12 printed sheetsMatched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.
- 1898 USGS Hebron quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
- 1955 USGS Lincoln quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
- 1957 USGS Lincoln quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Lincoln quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Byron quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Fairbury quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
5 since 2002Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Byron between 2002 and 2009, burning about 30 acres in total. None started naturally. None was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Reported cause | Fires |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 4 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 April 2009 | Debris and open burning | 20 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 2 April 2002 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 13 March 2008 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 1 March 2008 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 14 November 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
Storms near this place
17 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Byron in 17 storm reports between 1996 and 2023: 6 thunderstorm wind, 5 hail, 3 tornado, 2 heavy rain. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2004 | Tornado (F1) | Byron | $1,000,000 | A tornado traveled north from near Byron to just south of Deshler. Fortunately the tornado remained in primarily unpopulated areas. |
| September 2015 | Hail | Byron | $500,000 | Hail size ranged from 1 to 3 inches in diameter. |
| September 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Byron | $100,000 | Wind gusts were estimated to be near 70 MPH. |
| May 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Byron | $60,000 | Wind gusts were estimated to be near 70 MPH. A trained spotter reported an overturned pivot along Highway 8, west of Byron. Broadcast media relayed pictures of minor tree and outbuilding damage west of Byron. |
| May 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Byron | $50,000 | A cattle trailer was overturned one mile east of the Thayer-Nuckolls County line on Highway 8. Wind gusts were estimated to be near 70 MPH, with measured gust of 72 MPH occurring approximately 4 miles to the northwest of this damage report. |
| June 2015 | Hail | Byron | $25,000 | no account filed |
| June 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Byron | - | A wind gust of 71 MPH was measured by a mesonet station located five miles southeast of Ruskin. |
| October 2019 | Flood | Byron | - | Emergency management reported flooding about 2 miles south-southwest of Belvidere, with a few inches of water over one southbound lane and one northbound lane of Highway 81 near mile marker 16. Water was also reported to be over portions of Highway 53 just south of Alexandria and over rural county Road E between Road 5200 and 5300. Rainfall totals included 4.65 inches by a CoCoRaHS observer located 4 miles east of Ohiowa, 4.25 inches at the Hebron Airport and 3.81 inches by a cooperative observer in Hebron. |
| May 2015 | Heavy Rain | Byron | - | A 24 hour storm total rainfall amount of 8.78 inches was reported. |
| May 2015 | Tornado (EF0) | Byron | - | There was no damage reported with this tornado. The path was determined from video and radar information. |
| April 2014 | Hail | Byron | - | This is a delayed report for quarter size hail that occurred in the community of Byron. This report was received via Facebook. |
| June 2012 | Heavy Rain | Byron | - | Rain total of 3.25 inches for the past 24 hours. Report comes from the Nebraska Rainfall Assessment and Information Network. The rain began during the late afternoon on June 14th, with the last round of rain ending during the early morning hours of June 15th. |
| July 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Byron | - | Wind gusts estimated at 60-65 MPH in the Byron and Chester areas. Damage reports included a large tree toppled in Chester that narrowly missed a home, along with a grain storage structure that suffered roof damage. |
| May 2004 | Tornado (F0) | Byron | - | One final, brief tornado set down in south-central Nebraska east of Byron. The supercell thunderstorm then moved into Kansas. |
| June 2009 | Hail | Byron | - | no account filed |
| July 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Byron | - | no account filed |
| May 1996 | Hail | Byron | - | no account filed |
Nearest settlements
The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.
| Map | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chester | 8.0 miles | 13 | |
| Deshler | 9.8 miles | 13 | |
| Stoddard (historical) | 10.1 miles | 13 | |
| Hubbell | 14.4 miles | 11 | |
| Hebron | 14.8 miles | 13 | |
| Williams (historical) | 19.1 miles | 11 | |
| Belvidere | 20.4 miles | 12 | |
| Carleton | 21.0 miles | 12 |
Elsewhere
Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.
| Wikipedia article on Byron | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q282321 | The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0). |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 827830. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.





